Former South African President Thabo Mbeki has claimed that during Zimbabwe’s 2002 presidential election, the United Kingdom and the United States did not want President Robert Mugabe to contest the election. According to Mbeki, the two Western nations allegedly approached the South African government, urging it to invade Zimbabwe to prevent Mugabe from running as a candidate. However, South Africa reportedly rejected the proposal.
Analysts monitoring the situation says the west are always using only other Africans to maintain neocolonialism interest in Africa and that it South Africa was like Nigeria they will have succeeded in their plan to remove Mugabe from power because Nigeria will do the job for them just like France used Nigeria to invade Benin Republic to stop a revolutionary military takeover that was taking place to free Benin Republic from Western imperialists like France. A move Nigeria later claims that they invaded the Benin Republic to protect democracy as if Nigeria itself is democratic. Another analyst says if it was Nigeria they would have invaded Zimbabwe on the pretext that they are protecting democracy in Zimbabwe which in reality they are there to protect Western neocolonialism interest.
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